Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - September 25, 2025

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Conference call details

Meetings are hosted on the LFX Meeting Management platform. More details on how to register are at https://tac.openmainframeproject.org/meetings.

Meeting Recording

Link to meeting recording

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

  • Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
  • Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
  • Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
  • Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative

Quorum Not Achieved.

Voting Members Not in Attendance

  • Gregory MacKinnon - Broadcom Corporation
  • Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
  • Phil Tully - Citi
  • Mike Friesenegger - Feilong Representative
  • Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation

Other attendees

  • Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
  • John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
  • Christopher Robinson, The Linux Foundation
  • Michael MacIsaac, z/VM Community Tools
  • Misty Decker, Kyndryl
  • Donna Hudi, Phoenix Software
  • Jeff Brown, EMMA
  • Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc.
  • Saifur-Rahman Yusuf

Agenda

  • Mainframe Modernization Working Group Annual Review [#529]
  • Presentation from @SecurityCRob on leveraging OpenSSF for Open Mainframe Project [#904]
  • Discuss interests in creating a Security WG [#541]
  • Mainframe infrastructure coming online status [#596]

Notes

General Updates

Mainframe Modernization Working Group Annual Review

Misty Decker presented the annual review for the Mainframe Modernization Working Group.

Presentation from @SecurityCRob on leveraging OpenSSF for Open Mainframe Project

Christopher Robinson spoke on the latest topics from the OpenSSF project, including CRA preparation and the OSPS Baseline.